Book Quote by William Gaddis

“I need to experience books, not just read them.”

— Lauren Morrill

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind of thing.…

— Lloyd Alexander

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”

— Ursula Markham

One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows…

— Harold Bloom

“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

— Louis L'Amour

“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that…

— James A. Secord

“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.”

— Neil Gaiman

“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are…

— Philip Wylie

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

— Alexander Woollcott

“... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.”

— Anonymous